Albert Anis was a renowned Art Deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

 Architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

. He was one of a group of American-born architects working in Miami Beach who synthesized the austere architectural principles of the International Style with their own brand of modernism which embraced the ornamentation and exotic lure of tropical Miami Beach.

Career

Anis was the architect for a number of outstanding Art Deco-style buildings in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 in the 1920s, and hotels on Ocean Drive

Ocean Drive (South Beach)

Ocean Drive is a street in South Beach—the southern part of Miami Beach, Florida. It is known for its Art Deco hotels. Ocean Drive is also the location of the famed , one of the most photographed houses in North America. The street is the center of the city's Art Deco District, which is home to...

. His vast design output would forever shape Miami Beach in the distinctive style for which it is so famous today.
Among his most noted works are:

• The Waldorf Towers Hotel (1937)
• The Abbey Hotel (1940)
• The Winterhaven Hotel' (1937)
• The Temple Emanuel (1947)
• The Mantell Plaza (1942)
• The Leslie Hotel (1937)
• The Viscay Hotel (1941)